Pedometer — Privacy Policy

NextOne Labs LLC — Effective date: October 23, 2026

1. Information We Do Not Collect

NextOne Labs does not operate any server that receives your data from Pedometer, and the app has no crash-reporting service. Anonymous usage statistics are handled by Google Firebase Analytics (section 4). We do not collect:

• Names, email addresses, or contact information
• Your step counts, distance, calories, active minutes, sessions, streaks or badges
• Your height, weight, gender or year of birth
• Your GPS location or routes, or the dates and times of your activity
• Payment card details (purchases are handled entirely by Google Play)

2. Data That Stays on Your Device

Pedometer stores the following data locally on your device only:

• Activity data: daily and hourly step counts, distance, estimated calories and active minutes, goals, streaks and badges.
• Sessions: the walks, runs and hikes you record, with their time, steps, distance and pace, and, if GPS is on, the route as a series of coordinates.
• Profile: height, weight, gender and year of birth if you enter them. They are used only to estimate stride length, distance and calories.
• Preferences: settings such as units, goals, reminders, quiet hours and theme.

This data is kept in a database encrypted with SQLCipher. The app does not upload it. If Android backup is turned on for your Google account, Android may include the app's data in your device backup so it can be restored on a new phone; this backup is handled by Android and Google under your account settings, not by us, and you can turn it off in your device settings. You can delete all locally stored data at any time by clearing the app's storage in your device settings, or by uninstalling the app.

3. Permissions

You can deny any optional permission and keep using the features that don't need it.

• Physical activity (activity recognition): needed to read your phone's or watch's step sensor. Without it, Pedometer can't count steps.
• Foreground service and notifications: step counting keeps running in the background with a persistent notification showing today's steps, so your steps are counted while the screen is off. Notifications are also used for goal and inactivity reminders, which you can turn off, with quiet hours.
• Location (precise and approximate), optional: used only while a walk, run or hike that you started is being recorded, to measure distance and pace with GPS. If you don't allow location, sessions still record steps, time and an estimated distance. Recording may continue while the screen is off during that session. Pedometer does not request background location access and does not use location at any other time. Location is processed and stored on your device.
• Run at startup: restarts step counting after your device restarts.
• Internet and network state: used for ads, the consent form, anonymous usage statistics, Google Play purchases and the review prompt. Step counting works offline.
• Health Connect (optional): read steps, and write steps, distance and finished walks/runs, only if you turn on Health Connect sync; read past steps and distance (including data older than 30 days) only if you choose to import your step history.

4. Third-Party Services

Pedometer uses the following Google services. Each one processes data under its own privacy policy:

• Google AdMob (ads): the free version shows a banner on some secondary screens and, at most once every 30 minutes, a full-screen ad after you end a walk, run or hike of at least five minutes. AdMob may collect your device's advertising ID and app set ID, IP address (from which approximate location can be inferred), device and app information, ad interaction data and diagnostic data, in order to serve and measure ads and prevent fraud. Pedometer does not give AdMob your steps, health data, profile or GPS location. See how Google uses data from apps that use its services.
• Google Firebase Analytics (usage statistics): helps us understand which parts of the app are used so we can improve it. It collects an app instance identifier (a random ID for this installation, not linked to your identity), device model, OS and app version, language, approximate country (from the IP address), and app interactions: which tab or screen you open, that onboarding was completed, that a walk, run or hike started or ended (its type and a rough duration range such as “15–30 minutes”), that Health Connect sync was turned on or a history import finished, that the paywall was shown and where from, and in-app purchase events (the product and its price, which Firebase records automatically; never your payment details). It never receives your step counts, distance, calories, goals, profile, health data, GPS location, routes, the dates of your activity, or anything you type. Pedometer does not let Firebase collect your advertising ID or Android ID, and the data is not used for advertising. You can turn it off at any time in the app's Settings → Share anonymous usage stats. See the Firebase privacy information.
• Google User Messaging Platform (consent): in regions where consent is required (such as the EEA, the UK and Switzerland), Pedometer asks for your consent through Google's consent form before personalized ads are shown and before analytics data is stored, and shows US state privacy choices where they apply. Until you answer, analytics storage stays off. You can change your choice later in the app's Settings → Privacy options.
• Google Play Billing: handles Pedometer Pro purchases. Google processes your payment; the app receives only the purchase confirmation it needs to unlock Pro on your device. See the Google Payments privacy notice.
• Google Play Services: provides device location during sessions, phone–watch sync and the in-app review prompt.

All of the above are subject to Google's Privacy Policy. Other than these services, Pedometer does not share any data with third parties, and we do not sell your data. See section 11 for how ads relate to US state privacy laws.

5. Health Connect

If you turn on Health Connect sync in Settings, Pedometer asks for permission to read steps and to write steps and distance in Health Connect, the on-device health data store on Android. Pedometer writes its daily steps and distance there so your other health and fitness apps can see them, and, while you have Pedometer open, reads the steps other apps recorded today so the numbers stay consistent. With sync on, Pedometer can also write the walks and runs you finish as exercise sessions (start, end and type; no route), if you allow write exercise.

If you choose Import step history (in Settings, part of Pedometer Pro), Pedometer asks for permission to read steps, read distance and, where Health Connect supports it, read past data (data older than 30 days). It then reads, while the app is open, the daily step and distance totals that other apps on your phone stored in Health Connect, for up to the last two years, and saves them as daily totals in Pedometer's own encrypted database so your history, records and badges include them. Importing does not turn on sync and runs only when you start it. Distance and past-data access are optional; without them Pedometer estimates distance from your stride and can only import about 30 days before you first allowed access.

Health Connect data stays on your device; Pedometer does not send it anywhere else, does not use it for advertising, and does not sell it or transfer it to anyone. You can review or revoke these permissions at any time in Health Connect's settings.

Pedometer's use of information received from Health Connect adheres to the Health Connect Permissions policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

6. Wear OS Watch

The Pedometer watch app counts steps on your watch and stores them there. If the phone app is also installed, the two sync your daily steps, goal, sessions and settings using the Wear OS Data Layer in Google Play services. This transfer happens only between your own paired devices; Google Play services may relay it through Google's servers in encrypted form when the devices aren't directly connected. NextOne Labs never receives this data. The watch app shows no ads.

7. Export and Backup Files

With Pedometer Pro you can export your daily steps and sessions as CSV files and create a backup file of all your data. These files are created only when you ask, and go only where you choose to save or share them. Restoring a backup replaces the data on your device.

8. Children's Privacy

Pedometer is intended for users aged 16 and over. It is not directed at children under the age of 13 (or the minimum age for consenting to online services in your country, which is up to 16 in parts of the EU), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has used the app's ads or analytics, contact us; on the device, clearing the app's storage removes everything the app holds.

9. Data Security and Retention

On-device data is stored in an encrypted database and protected by your device's built-in security; we recommend using a screen lock. Your data stays until you delete it, clear the app's storage or uninstall the app. Data collected by Google's services is retained according to Google's policies; Firebase Analytics data is kept for up to 14 months.

10. Your Choices and Your Rights in the EEA, UK and Switzerland

• Change or withdraw your ad and analytics consent in the app's Settings → Privacy options (shown where a consent choice applies).
• Turn anonymous usage statistics off in the app's Settings → Share anonymous usage stats.
• Deny or revoke the location permission in your device settings to record sessions without GPS.
• Turn off reminders or Health Connect sync in the app's Settings, and revoke Health Connect access in Health Connect's settings.
• Reset or delete your advertising ID in your device's Google settings.
• Remove ads entirely by buying Pedometer Pro.
• Delete all app data by clearing storage or uninstalling the app.

The controller for the limited data described in this policy is NextOne Labs LLC, reachable at the contact address in section 13. Google acts as an independent controller or as our processor for the services in section 4, as described in its own policies. Google may process this data in the United States and other countries outside your own; for transfers from the EEA, the UK and Switzerland it relies on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework (and its UK and Swiss extensions) and on Standard Contractual Clauses. Where the law requires it, we rely on your consent for personalized advertising, ad measurement and analytics storage; otherwise on our legitimate interests in showing non-personalized ads in the free version, understanding how the app is used, and preventing fraud, and on performance of a contract to deliver a Pedometer Pro purchase. You have the right to access, correct or delete personal data about you, to object to or restrict processing based on legitimate interests, to withdraw consent at any time without affecting earlier processing, and to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. Because we hold no data about you and the app has no accounts, most requests are best handled on your device or through your Google Account settings; contact us and we will help within the time the law requires.

11. Your Rights Under US State Privacy Laws

Residents of California and other US states with comprehensive privacy laws have rights to know, access, correct and delete personal information, and to opt out of its sale, of its sharing for cross-context behavioural advertising, and of targeted advertising.

• We do not sell personal information for money, and we do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16.
• The free version shows ads from Google AdMob. Personalized ads may use your advertising ID, IP address and app activity, which some state laws treat as “sharing” for cross-context behavioural advertising, or as targeted advertising.
• To opt out, use the app's Settings → Privacy options where it is shown, reset or delete your advertising ID in your device's Google settings, or buy Pedometer Pro, which removes ads.
• Your activity, health and location data never leave your device through us and are not used for advertising. Anonymous usage statistics (Firebase Analytics) are not sold and not used for advertising; you can turn them off in Settings.
• You can make a request by emailing us; we will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the Pedometer app, or want to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us at:

NextOne Labs LLC
Email: hello@nextonelabs.com